les

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See also Les, LES, lës, lěs, leş, leš, lés, lès, and -les-

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

les (plural leses)

  1. (slang, colloquial) Short form of lesbian

Adjective[edit]

les (comparative more les, superlative most les)

  1. (slang, colloquial) Short form of lesbian

Anagrams[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Article[edit]

les f pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, masculine plural los)

  1. (definite) the

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin illas, from ille.

Article[edit]

les f pl (masculine plural les, masculine singular el, feminine singular la)

  1. the; feminine plural definite article

Pronoun[edit]

les (enclitic and proclitic)

  1. them (feminine, direct object)

Declension[edit]

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi2 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal4 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person  very formal1 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’3 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal1 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person.
2) Only as object of a preposition.		 3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

Czech[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

les m

  1. forest

Declension[edit]

    declension of les
singular plural
nominative les lesy
genitive lesa lesů
dative lesu lesům
accusative les lesy
vocative lese lesy
locative lese lesích
instrumental lesem lesy

Related terms[edit]

Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

les c

  1. genitive singular indefinite of le

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

les f (plural lessen, diminutive lesje)

  1. course, lesson

Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Verb[edit]

les

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lessen
  2. imperative of lessen

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French les, from Latin illos, which is the accusative plural of ille.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Article[edit]

les

  1. plural of le: the
  2. plural of la: the

Pronoun[edit]

les

  1. plural of le: them
  2. plural of la: them
Related terms[edit]
French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject)		 Reflexive Accusative
(direct complement)		 Dative
(indirect complement)		 Locative
(at)		 Genitive
(of)		 Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu, t’ te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il se, s’ le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
— on — — — — soi
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous vous — — vous
Third Masculine ils se, s’ les leur y en eux
Feminine elles elles

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1964, Albert Dauzat; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand, “le, la, les”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse:

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

les

  1. second-person singular present indicative of ler

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈlɛʃ/

Noun[edit]

les (plural lesek)

  1. (soccer) offside

Verb[edit]

les

  1. spy
  2. stare, goggle
  3. cheat at a test by looking at someone else's work

Icelandic[edit]

Noun[edit]

les n (genitive singular less, plural les)

  1. (linguistics) a lexeme; (set of inflected forms taken by a single word)
  2. (computing) a lexeme; an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Verb[edit]

les

  1. the first person singular form (“I read”) of lesa (“to read”)
    Ég les mikið af þýskum bókum.
    I read a lot of German books.
  2. the third person singular form (“he/it/she reads”) of lesa (“to read”)
    Pálmi les alltaf sömu söguna, þótt hann eigi margar bækur.
    Pálmi always reads the same story, even though he has many books.

Interlingua[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

les

  1. (dative) to them

Usage notes[edit]

  • Precedes conjugated verbs.
  • Can be of mixed gender (not just masculine).

Jèrriais[edit]

Article[edit]

les pl (singular lé, and la)

  1. Alternative form of l's.

Middle French[edit]

Article[edit]

les m pl, f pl (masculine singular le, feminine singular la)

  1. the

Descendants[edit]

Old French[edit]

Article[edit]

les

  1. the (feminine plural oblique definite article)
  2. the (feminine plural nominative definite article)
  3. the (masculine plural oblique definite article)

Inflection[edit]

Old French definite articles
Declension of the definite article le
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
nominative li la, le 1 li les
oblique le 1 la 1 les les
1 These singular forms elide to l' before a vowel or non-aspirate h.

Rohingya[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Bengali.

Noun[edit]

les

  1. tail

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /lêːs/

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *lěsъ (“tree, forest”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)

  1. coffin
  2. (regionally) lumber
  3. (regionally) forest, woods
Declension[edit]
    declension of les
singular plural
nominative lȇs lésovi
genitive lesa lésōvā
dative lesu lesovima
accusative les lesove
vocative lese lesovi
locative lesu lesovima
instrumental lesom lesovima

Etymology 2[edit]

From German Löss.

Noun[edit]

lȇs m (Cyrillic spelling ле̑с)

  1. (geology) loess

Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

Noun[edit]

les m (plural lesy, stem les, genitive singular lesa)

  1. forest

Declension[edit]

Declension pattern dub

Slovene[edit]

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia sl

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *lěsъ.

Noun[edit]

les m inan.

  1. wood

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin illis, dative plural of ille.

Pronoun[edit]

les

  1. dative form of ellos; to them
  2. dative form of ustedes; for them
  3. dative form of los; to you guys
  4. dative form of las; for you guys

See also[edit]

    Spanish pronouns

First person:

Second person:

Third person:

Demonstrative:
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